The bizarre event was set up on the Vons parking lot across the street from the Big Boy restaurant on Florence Avenue.
None who saw it are likely to forget it. It also featured a Bob’s Big Boy look alike contest, a free salad bar (if anyone still had a appetite for salad dressing after the wrestling), a sale on "The Bob Book" (which claimed to list anyone of importance named Bob), and the KISS-FM radio van.
A goodly crowd (mostly male) stood around the ring as two young women in bathing suits waded into the salad dressing (blue cheese) and, after some slipping and sliding, came to grips.
There was some cheering, but more pushing as those in the back of the crowd surged forward to see.
TV cameras were aimed and salad dressing flew. The event was sponsored by K.T.’s Kitchen of Glendale, which manufactured Bob’s Big Boy dressing. The contest went to the dark haired participant when her blonde opponent almost smothered after her face was shoved in the warm blue cheese dressing.
Whether the wrestling women helped the sale of salad dressing is unknown. But it certainly left a lasting effect on any who witnessed it.